"Is it okay if I drop her off at your place?" Elena had begged me earlier. I 'd told her yes, mainly in a rush to get off of the phone since I was in the midst of my work day. Now that I 'm driving home, I 'm worried about Erin. I hope she 's been okay alone at my apartment all day. Dang it, I knew I should 've left work early to stay home with her.
Elena 's words from our previous phone conversation run through my mind. "Please Austin, she 's contaminating our dorm and I have finals next week, I can 't afford to get sick right now. Besides, she 's your girlfriend and I 'm not cut out for this nurturing bull-crap."
Suddenly, I decide to veer into the right turning lane that merges into the Publix parking lot. I may not be a doctor, but
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Elena didn 't exactly tell me Erin 's diagnosis on the phone. Absentmindedly, I grab a bubble gum flavored cold and flu box, along with a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, and also some allergy medicine. Whatever she has, this oughta do it.
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Erin 's sprawled out on my couch, beads of sweat are formed on her skin and her dark locks are matted to her forehead. I 've turned the fan on high and adjusted the air conditioning three times. The thermostat currently says its seventy degrees throughout my apartment, yet Erin 's still warmer than a furnace. I 'm tempted to drop the temperate until it 's snowing inside, and bundle myself up, strictly for her well-being.
Hesitation is evident in my hands as I try to pour some of the pink, gooey, liquid medicine into the tiny measuring cup since the dosage is based on weight. Without thinking I tap on her shoulder. She needs medicine and if she doesn 't drink this now I 'll go insane watching her writhe on my sofa. "Erin..." I whisper loudly.
Her weak eyelids flutter apart and she struggles to look up at me. Guilt washes over me for waking her as her weak lips pull up in a fragile smile. She greets me and I kneel down beside the couch.
"How much do you weigh?"
Erin 's eyeing the medicine in my hands now. "What are you talking about?"
"Would you say you 're in the seventy to one hundred pound range?" I press. She 's still looking at me funny and I explain to her that the medicine dosage depends on weight.
“Don’t hesitate to call me if you need anything else”, Brianna says, offering one last warm hug as the young girl leaves. “And don’t worry, I will find a way to fix this, we’re in it together now.”
He gets back into the bed and gathers her to him. He begins to rub her arms up and down.
“I’ll think about it,” I replied. I left the dock. When I got home Mary was worried. She
“This will only be a pinch.” Eve said. I nodded my head in approval. So she went over to get the shot. Then steadily went over and got a disinfecting wipe. She had to put the shot into my chest then she took the disinfecting wipe and clean the area of gurms. Then she puts the needle into my chest. She keeps it there and puts a bange thing around it so it stays in place.
“Dr. Thomas, these past few weeks I have been terribly exhausted, I’d hate for my daughter to become ill, is there anything I can do?” Jennifer says.
Saturday afternoon , Sam and Colleen arrive at the hospital to visit Erika. Henry leaves to run some errands and give them alone time together . Erika's skin looks pale from her accident , her eyes and mouth wide open , she takes a deep breath every two minutes. Her mom Mrs. White sits in the chair next to her holding on to her hand as she cries. “ Is she gonna be OK?” “ I don't know , the doctors say she's in a state of shock , something scared her to where she is like this .” Sam goes up to Erika holding her hand . “ Erika its me Sam , we miss you , I miss you.” He gives her a kiss on the cheek and whispers in her ear. “ I'll get Scratch for this , even if it takes my last breath.”
Lena feels the bed dip and she looks up. Kara’s kind eyes are crinkled with a sympathetic smile.
“I work as a waitress and I had the late shift tonight and since I don’t have a car I had to walk home.” Logan nodded understandingly as if he had also gone through the same predicament.
“Okay, I just didn’t want you to think I was pressuring you to deal with this again,” Aidan replied. “That’s settled then. We’re going to Connecticut. You drive,” said Megan and started walking towards the exit. Aidan had to run to catch up with her. They walked silently across the parking lot towards Aidan’s car.
“Nah, you know, Josh, I’m not all that into just staying here.” She gave the impression that she wanted to go.
It was night, and I was walking Kaitlyn, my best friend, back to her house from the park. “Thanks, it was fun hanging with you”, she says smiling.
“Lovely!” He beamed, his hand sliding from her shoulder to her wrist. “Let’s go somewhere quiet, so we can talk.” Elena smiled and allowed him to navigate her though the crowd. Eventually she realized they were headed to an empty bedroom, to do what all wasted horny college students do. However, Elena, strangely enough, didn’t mind; the alcohol had put her at ease, silencing the anxiety that normally clawed at her thoughts.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about the check-ups. Yeah, sure, I'd be okay with a check-up on the baby," I kind of say in a ramble.
"Ah..." He choked on silent words, reaching his hand up to the corner of the counter as he lifted himself up. He drifted his fingertips across the cold bottles, sucking in breaths slowly as he popped the caps off the three bottles. The small pills tapped against the counter as he poured them lazily into his hand. His body slid down again, the bottles falling next to him as he poured the pills from one hand to the other. He ignored the blood that dripped from the newer cuts, soaking into some of the small pills.
She stops abruptly in front of me, forcing me to readjust my posture and free my numbed hands.